Manager Mine Planning

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

As Mine Planning Manager, you will provide people leadership and delivery accountability for mine planning capability across BHP. You will ensure high quality, consistent, and risk aware mine planning outcomes across assets, while protecting business value and supporting future growth through strong governance, assurance, and planning discipline.

Operating as a second line technical leader, you will enable confident decision making through independent assurance, governance oversight, and trusted technical advice across all planning horizons. You will work closely with asset teams, studies teams, Practice Leads, and senior leaders to strengthen decision quality, manage mine planning risk and uncertainty, and build a sustainable pipeline of mine planning capability aligned to enterprise priorities.

Key responsibilities:

• Allocate resources to support asset priorities, studies, assurance activities, and enterprise initiatives.
• Own and execute second line assurance and governance for mine planning activities, including assurance planning, issue escalation, and closure of material findings.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to asset leadership, central functions, and enterprise stakeholders, supporting decision quality across operational, study, and future planning contexts.
• Build and execute structured capability, mentoring, and succession plans for critical mine planning roles, aligned to RCoE capability frameworks and future demand.
• Identify, escalate, and manage mine planning related risks that could lead to value erosion, safety impacts, or disclosure risk.
• Partner with Practice Leads and Asset Technical teams to ensure consistent application of global standards while maintaining clear separation between people leadership and technical authority.
• Support enterprise initiatives across Resource Development, Future Planning, portfolio optimisation, and capital delivery.

About You

You are a people focused technical leader with deep mine planning experience and a strong track record of influencing outcomes in complex environments. You bring:

• Extensive mine planning experience across all planning horizons and multiple commodities.
• Demonstrated people leadership and coaching capability in technical environments.
• A strong commercial, risk, governance, and decision quality mindset.
• The ability to work collaboratively across functions, geographies, and organisational boundaries.
• Experience operating within second line assurance, governance, or independent review environments (desirable).
• Experience leading teams through operating model change or organisational transformation (advantageous).

About Our Process

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks. If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.  

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at inclusion@bhp.com.